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Most of the poems in this new collection follow the arc of the Caribbean archipelago from Trinidad to Jamaica. The reader is taken on an odyssey, beginning with "e;The Schooner Flight,"e; in which a poor mulatto sailor abandons his life in Trinidad, sailing northward to meet his fate, and ending with "e;The Star-Apple Kingdom,"e; a long poem whose axis is the crucial attempt to establish a new social order in Jamaica without sacrificing democracy. Other poems speak through various personae: "e;Koenig of the River"e; marks the end of a saga of nineteenth-century exploration and conquest through the Conradian image of a missionary-soldier whose comrades have been lost at sea; "e;The Saddhu of Couva"e; describes the lament of an Indian priest for a fading spirituality; "e;Egypt, Tobago"e; places Mark Antony on a beach in the glare of afternoon. Two poems are dedicated to fellow poets--Josephy Brodsky and Robert Lowell.In The Star-Apple Kingdom, Walcott's precise and inventive imagery is enriched by frequent exploitation of the tonal aspects of dialect. He has absorbed into poetry the normal resources of fiction--to the point where fact crystallizes into metaphor. As John Thompson recently commented in The New York Review of Books: "e;Walcott writes now as a man who knows exactly what he is doing. His style is that of the best language of our period."e;